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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles. See "Published Works" on the web version for citations.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Monday, October 10, 2016

The Army Ain't the Cub Scouts

Does every American soldier need to be able to fight the enemy? Yes. Next question.

I can't read the article (or even cut and paste the free teaser--thanks guys!), but the author (who I respect) clearly believes the answer is "no."

And two, have we forgotten that since the invasion a lot of support jobs were moved to civilian employees, already addressing the question in the affirmative to some extent, but making it far more important for those left in uniform to be capable of fighting the enemy?

Being capable of fighting enemies doesn't mean being capable of going on A-Team raids, but it damned well should involve defending your own position or fighting through an ambush.

[And yes, you may have seen this already when the scheduled posting function went wobbly and posted it earlier in time the same day before I noticed it. Sometimes that happens.]

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.

Of course, it is quite possible that my failure to use Facebook and Twitter has handicapped me in getting an audience. Or it may be an additional issue. I may be a blogosaur!